Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese 3* Green Capsule
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine, roasted duck with a fruit-based glaze, and aged hard cheeses like Comté or Gruyère.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor, often referred to as a visionary of the Mosel, is celebrated for his uncompromising dedication to quality and his precise expression of terroir. The Graacher Himmelreich vineyard is renowned for its steep slopes and deep, weathered blue Devonian slate soils, which impart a distinct, intense minerality to the wines. In Molitor's unique system, the Green Capsule indicates a 'feinherb' or off-dry style, offering a harmonious tension between delicate sweetness and vibrant acidity. The '3-Star' designation is the estate's highest quality tier for Auslese, representing an incredibly rigorous selection of the finest grapes. Fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts in traditional, large neutral oak casks (Fuder), this Riesling showcases a brilliant complexity, blending rich stone fruit flavors with smoky slate notes and a long, saline finish.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1984 when twenty-year-old Markus Molitor assumed control of his family's winemaking legacy, Weingut Markus Molitor has evolved into an undisputed titan of the Mosel. Based at Haus Klosterberg, Molitor manages over 100 hectares encompassing premier steep-slope crus along both the Middle Mosel and Saar, including Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Ürziger Würzgarten, Erdener Prälat, and Scharzhofberg. Viticulture is strictly manual on precipitous gradients of weathered Devonian blue, red, and grey slate. Molitor pursues an uncompromising philosophy centered on sustainable farming, late selective harvesting, native yeast fermentation, and prolonged aging on fine lees in traditional wooden Fuders carved into subterranean slate cellars. Renowned for its singular capsule coding system—white indicating dry, green denoting feinherb (off-dry), and gold designating noble sweet expressions, often tiered with asterisks—the estate crafts crystalline, hyper-mineral Rieslings of monumental depth and aging potential, alongside site-expressive Pinot Noir and Weissburgunder.